Connecticut western news., 1887-06-15
THE SPORTING WORLD.
TURF AND TRACK, YACHTING
 AND BASE BALL GOSSIP.
The Current Chat about Pedestrians,
 Pugilists, Etc.

LEAoUE.-lnclud1ng the games pl8yed June S. the Detroits have won %, lost g; Boston has won 21, lost H. New York has won 19, lost Is; Philadelphia has won IF, lost IS; Chicago won 14, lost 16; Pittsburg has won 12, lost Is; Wash ington has won Il, lost 16, and Indianapolis won 8, lost 25 AssocIAT1oN.-St. Louis has won S3 lost 2; Baltimore has won 23 and lost IS; Louisville has won 20, lost 19; Athletic has won 20, lost Is, Cincinnati has won 20, lost 21; Brooklyn has won IS, lost IS; Cleveland has won g, lost 27, and the Metropolitans have won 6, lost 27.
 A scheme is on foot in San Francisco to se- euro subscriptions to fund for the purpose of building a yacht on the Pacific coast to compete for the Americas cup: The vessel is to be built entirely of California materials and will be shipped in pieces overland to New York, and then will be put together ill time to compete in the races in which the Thistle will be entered. Much interest IS being manifested in the movement
 -Mervine Thompson, who was such prom | ising candidate for the championship before | intammatory rheumatism made comparative | wreck of him, is matched against the Pitts | burg heavyweight, Jack King. They will l box eight rounds for purse of 5000 in a Cleveland gymnasium on tho 21st inst. If | decision cannot be given at the end of these rounds two more will be fought. l It will soon be time for the crack trotters | to show what they can do.
 | Careful figuring shows that the receipts | of the League clubs last season were $32O, 900. | will amount to S4OO,0OO.
 | It begins to look as though McCarty was the coming jockey. He has done exceptional | y well of late and shows most excellent judg- ment at critical moments.
 | It is said that no one man can win the base ball championship, but Mike Kelly is doing big work toward getting it for the Bos- | tons.
 | Had the Atlantic been built just as Phil | Ellsworth intended she should there is no telling how fast she would be. As it is she is clipper and no mistake. The way she out footed the Galatea, which is faster than the Genesta, which is not so much slower than the new Scotch wonder, Thistle, showed that we haven't lost our grip on the Americas cup yet
 Terry of the Brooklyns is an cratic pitch CT, and when he breaks up he seems to go all to pieces.
 Kissing jockeys because they have not won is very reprehenslble practice. Racing IS governed by very strict laws, and judges are usually exceptionally capable and honest men. If any one can show, or has reason to believe, that jockey has not ridden properly, let him make complaint at the judges stand, and the matter will receive immediate and thorough investigation. Any other course is puerile and | unsportsmanlike.
 President Young, of the League, said recent | ly: q have never known the season to pro- | gross as smoothly as it has this year. The small difficulties which arise from time to time have been adjusted without reference to the League authorities, and at present the most friendly fellow feeling animates all the | club officials. The cry for revision of tie rules seems to have subsided, and the move- ment appears to have died a natural death."
 James Faulkner, the English wrestler, it is reported on good authority, will be married in | St. Louis this week. His intended bride is 8 | Cincinnati lady.
 New York yachtsmen are nearly all agreed | in thinking that the American idea in yachts | io fO ha r,nt f0 a faa n gle with the Scottish-American idea recently evolved and materialized in the Thistle. Steward Niels Olsen of the New York Yacht Club, who probably has seen all the important yachting events for the last quarter of 8 century, says he thinks that the Thistle will take the cup unless the steel model proves & flyer.
 Jacob B. Perkins, of Cleveland, O., has sold to Dr. Cartier, of Strong City, Kansas, son of the late Chief Justice Cartier, the bay
 gelding Faro, 2:2614, by Mambrino Gift, dam
 by Bay Norman. Faro is game and good
 trotter, and obtained this record in 1886 in
 Philadelphia. The price was $5,0OO. Faro
 will trot in John Splan's stable this season.
 Tt is but few years since Jacob Gaudaur, now ranking with the first oarsmen of the
 world, was one of the many Indian lads whose homes were on the shores of Lake Corchiching,
 8 pretty little lake 120 miles north of Halifax,
 and up there his growing fame is watched with much interest His father Francis Gaudaur
 is still bridge tender at the Narrows of Lake
 Couchiching for the Northern Railway, and
 though there Is other than Indian blood in his
 veins, his appearance does not indicate it.
 Francis Gaudaur's mother was French Cana dian, and for many generation Jake IS Can-
 adian. Gaudaur's first race was rowed at Or
 illia, a town on Lake Couchching, about ten
 years ago. It was for double-scull inrigged
 skiffs, distance two miles. Only two boats
 started, Jake and his brother Charles rowing
 against two white men, also brothers, named
 Mclean. The white men were fairly and easily
 beaten, and though they entered a protest the
 money, $2O, was given to the Indian boys.
 Page, the amateur champion high Jumper,
 who sailed in company with Carter for Eng
 land, has bad knee. Though compelled to
 wear an elastic bandage on it, he hopes few
 weeks rest will improve it so that he will be
 able to excel all previous performances when he jumps in England. He is a very gentle
 manly young fellow.
 In last Saturdays game with the Mets the St. Louis club had three pitchers playing ln ! their nine, King, Caruthers and Foutz. There ' is probably no other team in the country that
 can present such an array of versatile twlrler' The International League team of Oswege has disbauded. The rule is that when a clut
 disbands the games played with that club are thrown out. This leaves the Newark club il the lead with score of IF won and lost. -E. Renshaw has just won the Irish lawr tennis championship.
 The Mayfower is in perfect readiness
 eSAAS she has had new coat of white paint. Charles Mccarthy, the Philadelphia boxe1 | who gave Jack Dempsey such hard contes I over there, can be backed against Jack Hopper , Billy Dacey, Jim Breslin, or any other 126 pound man in America for $1,000. 3 The Derby favorite, the Baron, who wa
 beaten for the blue ribbon by Merry Hampton , beat the latter for the Grand Prize of Paris though he was himself second to the victor
 Tenebreuse.
 ,, A match race between the trotter Harr Wilkes, 2:13, and the pacer Gossip, Jr., 2:l4 will take place at Suffolk Park, Philadelphia on the 23d inst. A large number of NeH Workers will witness it.
 = Philadelphia is the head centre of homin
 pigeon sport. The fastest speed made thi season was by the Craige, which flew httl over 800 miles at the rate of four-fifths of , mile minute. The veteran Joe Gerhardt is the actin . captain of the Staten Island Indians. Tn 2 umpire who makes the genial German skick 1 must commit & grlevous wrong indeed. r Bob Ferguson says that in their presen . condition the Nets ought to win twenty-fou l out of the thirty games to be played on tn l. home grounds.
 At the Flushing Athletic Clubs game : G. J. Bradish ran quarter of mile in fifty
 three seconds on a fifth of 8 mile track. J. The Anchor line steamer Ethiopia Ina 0 brought over an English racing cutter. Sh
 is a five tonner of about the dimensions an l.; style of the Madge. She is consigned to if Beavor-Webb, At the ship it was said ths n the cutter is the racer Circe, and that she we bought for S. Grosvenor Porter of the Corir 70 thian Yacht Club.
 JAY GOULD'S GREAT SCHEME l. Tbo R;r Ra i1roo d Mo nato D1o opn;n.